By Sara Agnew
The Columbia Daily Tribune
Published: 2/23/06
Excerpt:
The executive producer of CBS's "48 Hours Mystery" has apologized for
airing an altered image of the front page of the Tribune in an episode
about the murder trial of Ryan Ferguson that aired [the night of Feb. 18]...
Bob Steele, a senior ethics faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a
premier journalism training center in Florida, said CBS executives
should apologize to viewers and use the network's Web site to explain
what went wrong and accept responsibility for an ethical failure.
"What they did wrong was twofold," he said. "One, they altered reality by changing a piece of documentary journalism.
"Secondly, they deceived their viewers because they left them with the
impression that what they showed was a truthful representation of what
the newspaper showed."
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